Tomato sauce on pizza is a vegetable, says Congress; GOP says healthier school lunches are too expensive.

There are five voting members of the Delaware River Basin Commission who will cast a vote this Monday, November 21 to accept weak gas drilling regulations which will, in effect, lift the moratorium on fracking in the Delaware River Basin. We must urge those members--the governors of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and New York, plus the Army Corps of Engineers--to vote no in order to protect the water supply of over 15 million people.

We the concerned citizens of Pennsylvania demand the immediate impeachment and/or resignation of Tom Corbett. The record of his administration says it all, everything from his involvement in the PennState molestation scandal to taking money from gas companies but far too many other grievances to list in this short petition. By signing this petition you agree Tom Corbett should resign and/or be impeached for the better good of Pennsylvania.

From the BPA (bisphenol-A) in our canned tomatoes and water bottles to the PVC (polyvinyl chloride) in our shower curtains and baby toys to the phthalates in our shampoo and shaving cream to the BFR (brominated flame retardant) in our mattresses and our baby's pajamas, we're surrounded by toxic chemicals that raise our risk of developing cancer, asthma, Alzheimers, and also cause a dizzying array of developmental, neurological, immunologic, reproductive, and endocrine disorders. The Safer Chemicals Act of 2011 would help protect consumers from these and other toxic chemicals but it needs more support to pass in the Senate.

The Supreme Court may treat corporations like people who can spend whatever they want on elections, but the American people don't have to accept it, said Democratic senators who proposed a constitutional amendment Tuesday to retake control of campaign spending. The proposed amendment would grant Congress the power to regulate campaign contributions to federal candidates and expenditures concerning federal elections; the same powers would be granted to the states with respect to state elections. The amendment would essentially reverse the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United ruling, which found that corporations have the right to spend unlimited sums of money in federal elections.

In the history of nonviolent protest in the united states, the federal government has often had to step in to protect the civil rights from the excesses of local police. We are calling on the White House to investigate and determine whether federal laws are being violated by local law enforcement authorities in their brutality against citizens exercising their right to peaceably assemble and protest.

After being evicted from Zuccotti Park in a pre-dawn raid, many people from Occupy Wall Street relocated to property owned by Trinity Wall Street Episcopal Church -- a progressive church with a rich history of social activism. But instead of the occupiers finding sanctuary on church property, they were arrested by the New York Police. The Bloomberg administration is clearly determined to put an end to Occupy Wall Street's peaceful witness against economic injustice. It's time for Christians to stand with the 99% -- not merely in words, but in action. Join us in asking Trinity Wall Street to do the right thing and offer sanctuary to Occupy Wall Street. (If you are an Episcopalian, please indicate your parish in the comments, so Trinity can see that many within their own tradition are asking for their support.)

When the Movie Saturday Nightfever was released there was no Oscar for best music after all these years we want the honorary Oscar for the Bee Gees for there entire work

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Supreme Court justices currently are not subject to the same canons of ethics to which other federal judges must comply. Justices Scalia and Thomas attended and spoke at a Koch Brothers event with Citizens' United on their docket. The two were speakers and guests of honor at a dinner of the Federalist Society on the same day that they considered reviewing the Health Care Reform Act. We're calling on John G. Roberts, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, to adopt the same canons of ethics to which the other Federal judges must adhere. We further ask that Justices Scalia and Thomas recuse themselves from the review of the Health Care reform act after they have demonstrated through their participation in the Federalist Society dinner a disregard for impartiality in this matter.

Americans carry more student loan debt than credit card debt. Federal Loans lock in an interest rate that is currently unchangeable. This petition urges the President to allow borrowers to refinance their student loan interest rate to a lower, more rational rate. Banks are borrowing money at less than 1% interest yet many student loans are locked in at nearly 7.5% Reducing interest rates will allow debtors to repay their borrowed money but at a rate that allows us to actually have a life, rather than working only to repay debt. This is not debt forgiveness, but debt compassion.

Dear AG of Hawaii We need a more comprehensive investigation before the financial institutions at the heart of the crisis are granted broad releases from liability. The Times editorial describes why Eric Schneiderman, Beau Biden and Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General of California, have refused to join the 47 other attorneys general who have agreed to the settlement. The Times editorial stated, The proposed settlement reportedly would prevent the states from pursuing claims against banks relating to fraud or abuse in the origination of loans during the bubble. It would also prevent states from pursuing claims for foreclosure abuses, like improper denial of loan modifications. And it would prevent them from pursuing banks' misconduct in their dealings with the Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems database, or MERS, a land registry system implicated in bubble-era violations of tax, trust and property law. redress -- could be impeded or blocked by the other constraints. Once one avenue of inquiry is closed off, it can be difficult to ascertain what happened along other points in the mortgage chain. In effect, the legal waivers being contemplated would let the banks pay up to sweep wrongdoing under the rug.